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Figure 8-5:
Cecil Taylor
overlapped
sounds and
tones when
he played
the piano.
Chapter 8: A Radical Departure: The 1960s and 1970s
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The group’s jazz used authentic African sounds (including chants) and instruments.
It’s almost entirely improvised, and their performances provided a
spectacle, with band members painting their faces and wearing loose clothes
made from African-print fabrics. Balanced on the cutting edge of ’60s and ’70s
jazz, the ensemble’s music was also rooted deep in Africa.
Tutankhamun (Black Lion) embodies their early (circa-1969) music.
Paul Bley
On piano, Paul Bley (born 1932) plays a lighter, dreamier style of jazz than his
peers. Early on, Bley played with 1950s cool and hard-bop musicians such as
trumpeter Chet Baker and saxophonist Jackie McLean, but by the 1960s, Bley
left those structures to explore largely improvised jazz.
Look for Improvisations: Introducing Paul Bley (Original Jazz Classics), Paul
Bley with Gary Peacock (ECM), and Copenhagen and Harlem (Arista).
Anthony Braxton
With his cardigan sweaters and wire-rimmed glasses, Anthony Braxton
(born 1945) looks like a college math professor, and his music is as perplexing
as advanced calculus. Sometimes Braxton played unaccompanied and
other times he composed epic works — symphonic in their precision and
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